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Shelf Life - Terror in Resonance

Paul D. Atreides wrote:

So is Terror in Resonance just going to be one of those: critics love it, audience don't?

No, not really. It's actually more the opposite. It has been pretty well accepted among casual anime fans(MAL figures), while most critics aren't liking it so much. ANN's userbase is more representative of a critical viewpoint than that of the larger fandom anyway, so something not getting love here is more likely a sign that it's NOT a critical darling. As to why Nick and James like it? They are pretty much just outliers, I guess

C³ certainly had an interesting preview back in 2011, and people could probably have easily thought it was for some kind of action anime with a dark atmosphere at the time. I am curious about it though.

Terror in Resonance became a trainwreck by the end, and I'm totally baffled as to what people see in it. So good at the start, so wonky by the end.

It's just a good thing I can sustain myself on cat cuddles and love instead of food, lol. Butters is my absolute favorite thing in the whole world.

I almost don't know what Mr. Beckett is on about in his practically glowing review (it wasn't that good a show), and it seems about everybody misses the fact that 9 and 12 aren't terrorists at all. No surprise then that they don't act like it, their mission is to expose a faction in the government that has spoiler[made an atomic weapon] and appeal to public fear of such a weapon to counter said faction's plans for re-establishing Imperial Japan. It is the politically aligned media that brands them "terrorists", but they know that if someone dies, the name will stick and their appeal will fail. Where the writing/story concept fails with me is the proposition that 9 and 12 apparently think staging ever larger bombings of public areas will excite resonance of fear when the spoiler[atomic bomb is detonated] causing the public to "rout out" the faction. Sadly, everything about the show was subservient to that failure of a concept and with misdirection of the audience's attention with the Sphinx/PD interaction and 5's appearance, without proper character development, rightly leaves the viewers disappointed and maybe a little confused.

C³ certainly had an interesting preview back in 2011, and people could probably have easily thought it was for some kind of action anime with a dark atmosphere at the time. I am curious about it though.

Those Who Hunt Elves, what a classic example of the good kind of fantasy anime nonsense. The English dub just goes and does its own thing at times, so should you plan on seeing this, keep in mind it won't obey the original script in many places. The dub's voice acting might not impress anyone since it's a product of its time though, so I imagine most people will switch to the Japanese version.

I've never watched the anime, but I've read the novels. It does get dark and pretty gory at times, but it never really leaves any of the romcom aspects behind. They usually don't intersect though.

It's partially that, but it won't impress fans of dark/action anime with its considerable amount of harem/romcom antics that include some quantity of loli elements. Not to mention, it's one of your standard 600-minute LN commercials, capped off with a monumental "way to just stand there and let the villains slowly escape" moment at the end.

One could think of Those Who Hunt Elves as a story of 3 dubs and 3 different directors. Eps 1-6 directed by Tristan MacAvery were somewhat liberal, perhaps in the way that many of ADV's VHS-era "no one's going to have both versions to check fidelity" dubs were. Steven Foster ramped things up dramatically in eps 7-12 with more profanity, sex jokes, and random-now-horribly-dated American pop culture references. Eps 13-24 were directed by Janice Williams several years later, and were far more faithful to the Japanese script than the first half's dub was.

Again, Patlabor 2 did this better with the feint terrorist attacks that caused martial law to be implemented while ZnT's attacks only just happened to not kill people because that's what the plot demands. It was completely impossible to suspend my disbelief and enjoy because I had this annoying bright flaw just blinding me from episode 2 onward. Every second I'm just reminded of how this "super serious Watanabe/Kanno anime about imperial warmongering and disaffected youth" turns out to be really goddamn stupid. They're definitely terrorists, just ones who live in a universe where explosions and EMPs don't kill people. That's not this world, that message doesn't work, the anime's central theme is lost. Pretty Ferris Wheels and Motorcycles aren't saving a pile of shit.

I also found Kanno's music choices to be uninspired.

Love Patlabor 2. Also, I'm not the world's biggest Yoko Kanno fan; I do like the Maaya Sakamoto songs for which she composed the music. Cowboy Bebop is the only Watanabe anime I've seen and actually like enough to own; Space Dandy never clicked with me, despite the considerable talent on display. Note: haven't watched Macross Plus yet.

It might be worth your time to check out Kids On The Slope. He directed it, but it is not nearly as much a "Watanabe" show as the others. Personally, it's my favorite of his directorial works.

classicalzawa wrote:

Yeah, having that much physical manga is not easy, I dread moving. I'm actually having to sell some things, I really want/need the space and am just plain done with some things (I have a thread over on the sales page, most of the stuff I wanna sell is up on eBay, but I always cut better deals on here, no eBay fees or whatnot)

I made the mistake of looking through your sales before having to forcefully remind myself that I'm moving in a few months. The struggle is too real! I've got 4 large bookcases and one smaller one that are all stuffed right now, with a bunch of manga starting to get stacked up since I've run out of space in the shelves...moving is going to be so awful. But once I move I can finally buy myself some nice new shelves for my manga and for my figures that are all currently boxed away (fingers crossed for glass cases...)

Terror in Resonance became a trainwreck by the end, and I'm totally baffled as to what people see in it. So good at the start, so wonky by the end.
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On a different note, Shelf Life seems a little barren with only one review per week.

As for how much of it is unread, yeah, I'm working on it.

belvadeer wrote:

C³ certainly had an interesting preview back in 2011, and people could probably have easily thought it was for some kind of action anime with a dark atmosphere at the time. I am curious about it though.

It's partially that, but it won't impress fans of dark/action anime with its considerable amount of harem/romcom antics that include some quantity of loli elements. Not to mention, it's one of your standard 600-minute LN commercials, capped off with a monumental "way to just stand there and let the villains slowly escape" moment at the end.

fuuma_monou wrote:

Love Patlabor 2. Also, I'm not the world's biggest Yoko Kanno fan; I do like the Maaya Sakamoto songs for which she composed the music. Cowboy Bebop is the only Watanabe anime I've seen and actually like enough to own; Space Dandy never clicked with me, despite the considerable talent on display. Note: haven't watched Macross Plus yet.

It might be worth your time to check out Kids On The Slope. He directed it, but it is not nearly as much a "Watanabe" show as the others. Personally, it's my favorite of his directorial works.